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Maarten Ectors
3 August 2015

Java on Snappy

Internet of Things Article

Snapcraft is a new tool allowing developers to easily and quickly package their favourite projects as Snappy Apps or Snaps. Since lots of enterprise developers are using Java for IoT, we wanted to show a preview of how to package a Java war, Tomcat and a JDK as a Snap. The video also shows how to deploy a ...


Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

Cloud and server Videos

Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the thought leaders in this area and have a discussion of the challenges that face devops today and how solving large scale problems can help drive ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015

ODS Video: Making Large-scale Data Centre Deployment Easy With MAAS

Cloud and server Article

Why has cloud computing been so successful? Arguably, it’s the 70s-style pay-as-you-go model of computing that allows companies a low-cost way to build a cloud from zero. More importantly, it’s how the cloud solves the problem of quick machine deployment in fast-paced business environments – provisioning a new PC in minutes. But what if y ...


Maarten Ectors
30 July 2015

Spreedbox – most private video chat and file exchange

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Struktur AG. Today, most organizations use online services for communication and often have confidential data shared and stored with service providers. Just think of Google®, Skype®, WebEx®, GoToMeeting®, BlueJeans® and many others. You may already have used these services to video conference, share files, keep you ...


Charles Butler
30 July 2015

Juju & Kubernetes: The power of components

Cloud and server Article

While dogfooding my own work, I decided it was time to upgrade my distributeddocker services into the shiny Kubernetes charms now that 1.0 landed last week.I’ve been running my own “production” (I say in air quotes, because my 20 or somicroservices ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015

ODS Video: OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Cloud and server Videos

As OpenStack cloud innovation progresses, we’re focused on finding ways to fully automate OpenStack deployment. As regular readers know, part of this goal sees us work with technology vendors across the gamut of hardware, networking and storage solutions to test, validate and guarantee their components. The aim? To drive quality of deploy ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015

Big Data: Moving from Complexity to Simplicity with Juju & Azure

Cloud and server Videos

Last month, we collaborated with Microsoft to hold two events in Austin and Los Angeles to showcase the power of Juju on Azure. Juju embeds DevOps best practices to let other users play and integrate in order to commoditize access to big data architectures and help developers to work in that space. Join Canonical’s Strategic ...


Mark Baker
27 July 2015

Voting begins for OpenStack Tokyo talks

Cloud and server Article

We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo in Vancouver. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk so if you think they are interesting – please vote for them! Creating business value with cross cloud infrastructure Speaker: Mark Shuttleworth Track: Enterprise IT Strategies Building an OpenS ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015

ODS Video: Driving quality control into OpenStack cloud development

Cloud and server Videos

How do we make sure Ubuntu offers the best possible ecosystem of both hardware and software components for OpenStack? Chris Kenyon talks about how we’re driving quality into the OpenStack deployment journey in the latest of our OpenStack Summit keynotes. As the cloud landscape matures, enterprise customers are looking for cost-effective, ...


Canonical
24 July 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: July 2015 Newsletter

Cloud and server Article

School’s out for the summer – in the Northern Hemisphere – but we’ve been busy planning Juju workshops, adding new locations to our popular Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training course and preparing for a number of upcoming events! Read what’s new and exciting with Juju, containers and our partner ecosystem and get in touch if you ...


Richard McCartney
24 July 2015

Converting old guidelines to vanilla

Ubuntu Development

How the previous guidelines worked Guidelines essentially is a framework built by the Canonical web design team. The whole framework has an array of tools to make it easy to create a Ubuntu themed sites. The guidelines were a collaboration between developers and designers and followed consistent look which meant in-house teams and communi ...